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Highlighting these questions are the personal documents Wolff scatters throughout The Final Club. The documents are examples of the institutionalized mix of truth and falsehood we all encounter and produce in forms like college applications. Clay's and his classmates' contributions to their alumni reports and their children's application...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Ceremonies of Exclusivity, Timeless Literary Questions | 9/21/1990 | See Source »

But you can be an observer as well. Set aside a corner of your brain and keep it at a distance from the morass of lunacy that you are bound to encounter. Take a moment from time to time to analyze what the "Harvard experience" has done to you and...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: . . .and More Than You Bargained for | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Here at the annual SIGGRAPH computer-graphics show in Dallas, I'm having my first hands-on encounter with the technological phenomenon known variously as cyberspace, artificial reality or, in a phrase borrowed from computerese, virtual reality. It relies on the techniques of interactive computer graphics to create the illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: (Mis)Adventures In Cyberspace | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

But New York prosecutor Charles Rose is willing to concede very little. "There are probably some psychological problems in his makeup, but that doesn't make him incapable of running the family," says Rose. "Gigante is one of the most astute crime bosses you'll ever encounter."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The Godfather Insane, or Crazy Like a Fox? | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

Wild at Heart begins with the moody Sailor (Nicolas Cage) bashing a black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wizard Of Odd | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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